Famous quotes containing the words award, critics, choice and/or actor:
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“Neither can I do anything to please critics belonging to the good old school of “projected biography,” who examine an author’s work, which they do not understand, through the prism of his life, which they do not know.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Therefore is love said to be a child
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor’s art infinite.”
—Ellen Terry (1847–1928)